mcdonnell. fred, this is what is very interesting here, the unemployment rate here in virginia is 5.9%, much lower than the national average. so you may not hear mitt romney talk a lot about jobs today but he did react yesterday after the unemployment report, take a listen to what he said on the campaign trail. >> he said that he'd create jobs and insad we have unemployment now still over 8% for 43 straight months. he said by now it would be down to 5.4%. now by the way, those numbers, 8.1, 5.4, what difference do they make? let me tell you what difference they make, the difference in those numbers is 9 million americans working. that's the difference. >> reporter: both candidates spending a lot of time. this is going to be mitt romney's seventh trip to virginia. barack obama, the president, was just here last tuesday, made seven swings through the state. four years ago senator obama became the first democrat to carry virginia since 1964, both campaigns think they can win this state, a lot of mo